Truth is hard to come by these days, even when you go looking for it. In the jargon of the moment, we are overrun with misinformation and disinformation — which I like to call stupidity,…

Once again, another unfunded mandate is working its way through the Kansas Legislature — HB2662.  If passed, this bill would establish a Parents’ Bill of Rights and Academic Transparency law.  In general, the parents’ rights…

The past two years have been “a bit of a whirlwind” for Moran native Molly McEwan. She experienced the COVID-19 pandemic earlier than her friends and family in Allen County, as she was living and…

LAHARPE — There are few things Harry and Joyce Lee enjoy as much as working in the garden. And the Lees aren’t alone, as the cold winter days begin to give way to warmer temperatures,…

Big-city jazz, blues and soul music will make its way to Iola Saturday night. Ron Jackson, a New York City jazz guitarist, and his band will have two performances at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.…

Allen County commisioners and representatives of Carlyle Presbyterian Church made a last-minute location change on Tuesday,  just a week before the installation of six storm shelters. The storm shelters will be installed in five places…

“I can barely contain my excitement,” said Robin Schallie at the news that the Iola Chamber of Commerce is relocating to the downtown square. “We’re shooting for April 10,” said Schallie, who serves as Chamber…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Efforts to propel Kansas’ renewable energy future are at a standstill, mired in legislative stalemate. At its center is a former TV weather personality who is using his chairmanship of a…

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A police affidavit released Wednesday says a student at a Kansas high school began shooting after an administrator and school resource officer demanded to search his backpack because of rumors the…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Rescue workers searched for survivors Thursday in the ruins of a theater blown apart by a Russian airstrike in the besieged city of Mariupol, while scores of Ukrainians across the country…